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Sirens of Swank, Schwa, T-Tones sing

for good cause

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Whitman’s three a cappella groups united over Family Weekend to support local

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Feature explores KWCW’s diverse array of programming and links to the community .

Steeped in tradition, Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Mr. Whit-man fundraiser has been one

of the most popular philanthropy events on campus for over 10 years. Every year, Kappa Kappa Gamma chooses eight senior men—four in-dependent men and one represent-ative from each Whitman fraterni-ty—to compete for the title of Mr. Whitman. The men organize and help fundraise for a cause chosen by the sorority earlier in the year.

This year’s pageant proceeds will go towards Walla Walla’s Blue Mountain Heart to Heart. In their fundraising efforts, the contest-ants have encouraged both men and women on campus to actively con-tribute to a cause close to home.

“I think it brings a lot of peo-ple together. It’s not just a Greek event, and it brings the whole campus together,” said Kap-pa Kappa Gamma’s Philanthro-py Chair, junior Jenna Fritz.

Unlike many sorority fund-raisers on campus, Mr. Whitman capitalizes on the fact that men un-

affiliated with the sorority contrib-ute to raising money for the cause through organization of cam-pus-wide events. Past Mr. Whit-man charities include the Chris Elliot Fund and the Salud Jun-tos Project, the former of which received over $50,000 from the fundraiser. Mr. Whitman cul-minates in a beauty pageant that will take place on Friday, Oct. 28, in which the men compete for points and popular votes by show-ing off their bodies and talents.

“The guys have really be-come a symbol of Mr. Whit-man,” Fritz said. “There’s a draw that it’s an event put on by a so-rority, but it’s guys competing.”

The eight senior men com-peting start fundraising as ear-ly as the summer for the title of Mr. Whitman. Senior contest-ant David Hancock, who original-ly submitted the proposal to spon-sor Blue Mountain Heart to Heart, notes that competing in the event goes beyond battling for a title.

“I wouldn’t even say it’s a matter of pride,” he said. “For me it has a lot more to do with show-ing a certain level of commitment.”

Although due in large part to organization and work by both the sorority and the men competing in the event, the success and longev-ity of the fundraiser is also due to its bending of societal norms. As-sociate Professor of Religion and Director of the Gender Studies Pro-gram Melissa Wilcox believes that the popularity of Mr. Whitman lies in its ability to show a serious and controversial issue, female beau-ty pageants, in a humorous manner.

“What Mr. Whitman does is it takes the standard female beauty pageant, which I think a lot of peo-ple at Whitman have critiques of, and reverses it. The reversal comes out funny because the beauty pag-eant is such a gendered thing,” Wil-cox said. “On the one hand there’s an emphasis on traditional mas-culinity; on the other hand, it’s al-most a kind of drag in a weird sort of way to see men doing the stand-ard repertoire of a beauty pageant.”

Wilcox notes that she wouldn’t necessarily promote a male beau-ty pageant as an ideal fundraiser.

“I would caution them to think hard about why they’re do-ing it and the impact of it and

whether it is positive,” she said. “I think there are some ques-tions about how worthwhile it is to turn around and objectify men.”

While many other fundrais-ers on campus target parents and the local community with bake sales and donation bins, Mr. Whit-man profits from finding a hu-morous commonality amongst different students on campus.

Senior contestant Noah Henry-Darwish notes that it’s the uniqueness of the event that makes it so successful.

“It has a large place at the col-lege in terms of tradition. There’s not a lot of traditions that are so suc-cessful at fundraising. It catches the eye of a lot of students and faculty,” he said. “It’s hard to say no to some-thing where it looks like people are having so much fun on stage.”

Wilcox doesn’t necessar-ily believe that the fundrais-er is wrong in using gender rela-tions to its advantage. Rather, Wil-cox sees the fundraiser as valu-able in bringing social experi-mentation of gender onto campus.

“I think you can read it as a re-versal experience, which in itself

tells us something about gender and which, in a way, is an important ex-perience,” she said. “It has the abil-ity to point out ‘look how prob-lematic women’s beauty pageants are’ and ‘look how odd they look when you do them with men,’ and if you think about that for a while, it tells you a lot about the gender relations in our culture. So I think it’s more of a valuable experiment because it’s done in that spirit.”

Fritz acknowledges that the humor of the fundrais-er comes from the gender rever-sal, noting that the playfulness of the event helps bring the cam-pus together for a good cause.

“There’s a way in which [the event] is able to reach a lot more people. It’s funny and it’s silly and I think that’s a lot of the draw for it,” Fritz said.

Fritz further notes that al-though there is added pres-sure to compete with last year’s goal, she hopes that that the lo-cal community and Whitman will remember the value of fun-draising for a local organization.

The term “feminism” is of-ten associated with women and advocacy for women’s

causes. This definition, while not incorrect, is more exclusive than the members of Feminists Ad-vocating Change and Empower-ment (FACE), the feminist group on campus, would like to uphold.

“Feminism is popular-ly conceived both in public and at Whitman as being a female movement and historically there are mainly female feminists. Feminism is for gender equali-ty, not just for the advancement of women,” said senior Ellie Newell, co-president of FACE.

In order to bring a broader definition of feminism to cam-pus, FACE is presenting “Fe-MENism,” a panel that will dis-cuss the role of men in femi-nism. The panel, scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Jewett Hall main lounge, will include the perspectives of several student and profes-sor panelists. It will be mod-erated by Associate Profes-

sor of Religion Melissa Wilcox.“It’s an inadequately consid-

ered question,” said Associate Professor of English Gaurav Ma-jumdar, one of the professor pan-elists, about the panel’s topic.

Senior Seth Dawson, who has participated in FACE events since his first year at Whitman, has recently become more reg-ularly involved with the group. When asked by the members of FACE to participate in the pan-el, Dawson saw an opportuni-ty for discussion of the ques-tions he faces as a male feminist.

“I’ve personally strug-gled to find the place of men in feminism,” said Dawson. “As a man, sometimes I ac-cidentally speak with an au-thority that’s not mine.”

Dawson remarked that men need to be more self-conscious when discussing issues of dis-crimination that women face.

“Look, as a man, I will never face these issues . . . Men in feminism should have more of a supporting rather than a deciding role,” he said.

O n Monday, Oct. 24, the Whitman communi-ty hosted visiting au-

thor Anne Fadiman in Cordin-er Hall for a lecture, the culmi-nation of the first-year summer read program. The talk was fol-lowed by a question-and-answer session with Fadiman and her Hmong interpreter May Ying Ly.

The 2011 summer read book was “The Spirit Catch-es You and You Fall Down,” the story of Hmong parents and their epileptic daughter, Lia Lee, and of the cultural conflicts that complicate her treatment.

During the question-and-answer session, Fadiman and Ly discussed the writing pro-cess and the influence the book has had on others’ percep-tion of Hmong immigrants and American medical providers.

Fadiman spoke about the ori-gins of the book as well as her re-search process and how she has benefited from her time with the Hmong. She described her work with interpreter May Ying Ly to bridge the language and cultur-al barriers between the Hmong and American medical communi-ty while describing Lia’s situation.

“I was accepted into the [Lee] family,” Fadiman said of her time interviewing and researching.

“May Ying told me what to do.”Fadiman described how her

time gathering information from the Lees was in stark contrast with that of the American doctors who at-tempted to help Lia. With Ly as her cultural broker, Fadiman was able to better understand the Lee fam-ily’s perspective on Lia’s epilepsy and on the entire medical process.

The two spent hours of what Fadiman calls “in the house” time speaking with the Lees. They also had hours of “in the car” time—Ly and Fadiman sat in Fadi-man’s rental car parked outside the Lee’s apartment and went through all of what was said.

MR. WHITMAN

PROFITSUSING GENDER

by SHELLY LENews Editor

Mr. Whitman consists of multiple fundraising events organized by the eight senior competitors—four inde-pendent men and one representative from each fraternity—and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Fundraisers this year included performances by Schwa (below) and Whitman’s Slam Poetry Club (right) and a Win-A-Date Auction (above, left), where Whitties could bid for a date with student volunteers. The fundraiser culminates in a male beauty pageant to be held on the evening of Friday, Oct. 28. Proceeds from Mr. Whitman will go towards Walla Walla’s Blue Mountain Heart to Heart Outreach Program and the National Kappa Foundation. Photos by Axtell

At the lecture Monday night, Oct. 24, author Anne Fadiman lectured about her book, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.” Fadiman’s interpreter, May Ying Ly also participated in the question-and-answer session. Photo by von Hafften

see MR. WHITMAN, page 3

see FACE, page 2 see FADIMAN, page 2

by PATRICIA VANDERBILTEditor-in-Chief

by ALLISON WORKStaff Reporter

FACE to broaden image with upcoming FeMENism panel

Fadiman explores Hmong viewpoint

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Newell emphasized, however, that discrimination goes both ways.

“There are many things that are discrimina-tory towards men that out-rage me as a woman,” she said.

Junior Joey Gottlieb also voiced the need for a dia-logue about equality of genders.

“I see feminism as a contin-uum, a spectrum in the sense of feminism as a fight for, not for rights of women, but equal rights of genders,” said Gottlieb, who will be a panelist on Thursday.

Gottlieb underscored the potential contribution that men can give to the cause of equality.

“Men are the last demo-graphic considered when look-ing for feminist voices,” he said. “It would be foolish to write men off as a lost cause.”

For FACE, an exciting de-velopment of the event’s plan-ning came when the Inter-fraternity Council (IFC) ex-pressed its desire to be involved with the panel. Senior John-Henry Heckendorn, a mem-ber of Tau Kappa Epsilon, will be one of the student panelists.

“We feel that perceptual-ly these two groups exist at op-posite ends of the Whitman Col-lege spectrum but that in reali-ty there is no basis for this sepa-ration,” Heckendorn said about FACE and IFC in an email. “An opportunity to talk about the role

of men in feminism provides a unique space for fraternity mem-bers to engage with some of the assumptions that many peo-ple hold about the ethos and at-titude of fraternities in general.”

Heckendorn also men-tioned the role that fraterni-ty participation can play in ex-panding FACE’s reach with-in the Whitman community.

“Because fraternities rep-resent a significant portion of that community and are inte-gral to the framework through which our community comes to-gether, it makes a lot of sense to me that they should play a prom-inent role in the effort to make feminism at Whitman more vis-ible and accessible,” he said.

For FACE, IFC’s participa-tion in feMENism is an exciting opportunity to expand perceived limitations of directions that feminist voices can come from.

“We’re really over-joyed that we have a mem-ber of Greek life,” said Newell.

According to Newell, Fe-MENism will be the first event sponsored by FACE in the last five years that specif-ically addresses men’s place in the feminist movement.

“I would encourage people—even if you don’t consider your-self a feminist—to come. I think it’s going to be a really interesting perspective that isn’t talked about much at Whitman,” Newell said.

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NUMBERS IN THE NEWS

17Percentage of children and adolescents aged two to 19 years old in the United States who are obese.

17 millionNumber of children in the United States who live in households struggling to put food on the table.

40 million Number of people who received food stamps in the summer of 2010.

6 centsAmount a wheat farmer can expect to receive per dollar spent on a loaf of bread.

0.44Portion of an acre needed to produce food for a person following a low-fat vegetarian diet.

2.11Acres needed to produce food for a person following a high-fat diet with a lot of meat.

5The number of U.S. states that have more pigs than people—Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina and South Carolina.

10,000- 20,000Number of physician-diag-nosed pesticide poisonings that occur each year among the approximately 2 million U.S. agricultural workers.

2:1The ratio of illness and injury for workers in “animal slaughtering and processing” compared to the national aver-age for workers.SOURCES: CNN, THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, THE WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE, SCIENCE DAILY, THE ENVI-RONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, THE U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.

by shelly leNews EditorEnvironmental sustainabili-

ty is a topic that is often ad-dressed at Whitman, but for

one reason or another, whether it is lack of information or simply the fact that students enjoy Prentiss Dining Hall bacon too much, the issue of food is often overlooked.

The Real Food Challenge is an organization that attempts to address the lack of information and general knowledge about the impact of everyday food choic-es. Without demanding that stu-dents put down their meat, the program is designed to get them to think about that piece of meat and know exactly where it comes from and what effect they are having on the world by eating it.

That being said, the Real Food Challenge at Whitman hopes to engage students and get them to think and talk about the im-pact of their food-related choices.

Sophomore Genny Jones, one of the three Real Food Chal-lenge grassroots leaders at Whit-man, explained the concept of the Real Food Challenge.

“The Real Food Challenge is a national network of students that are working towards shifting one billion of the dollars spent in din-ing halls to real food,” she said.

According to Jones, the shift from factory food to “real food” in Whitman dining halls and dining halls across the country is the top priority in the Real Food Challenge.

“Agriculture consumes more petroleum and gas products than all cars in the U.S. On av-erage, each piece of food travels 1,500 miles to get to your plate,” she said. “Real food is locally sourced and/or community based, sustainable, fair towards work-ers and humane towards animals.”

The Real Food Challenge has two major goals: get 20 percent real food in the dining hall by the year 2020 and start an informed discussion about food on campus. The Real Food Challenge lead-ers—Jones, sophomore Julia Stone and senior Rachel Williams—are currently in the process of auditing Bon Appétit’s numbers to calcu-late how much of the food current-ly consumed is real food. This pro-cess takes a long time and requires an extensive amount of work.

Roger Edens, general man-ager of Bon Appétit, com-mented that knowing how much real food Bon Appé-tit currently buys is beneficial.

“I think it would be great to have a baseline for the Real Food Challenge and the way that’s calcu-lated and then have students in the future repeat it so we can see what the change is over time. It takes a tremendous amount of work on the students’ standpoint,” said Edens.

According to Edens, Bon Appétit understands the im-portance of what the Real Food Challenge is doing.

“We’re really supportive of [the Real Food Challenge], and it really coordinates with goals that we have for ourselves an-yhow. Bon Appétit’s internal goals also have a 20 percent fig-ure for farm-to-fork, locally, what-not. The Real Food Challenge ac-tually expands on that—fair trade [for example],” said Edens.

But for anything to change, there must be a force to apply pressure. This is where Whit-man students come in, and the first step to making a dif-ference is being knowledge-able on the subject of food.

“We’re not advocating for a hundred-mile-radius diet. We’re not advocating for the extremes. But understanding what [concen-trated animal feeding operations] are and where your meat is com-ing from and what that is doing to the land, your body and to the peo-ple who make it [is important].”

Stone believes that the first step in changing the way that the nation eats is by begin-ning the dialogue on the im-pact of food on a small scale.

“A lot of people care about the food they eat on campus, and we just want to bring all those voices together and kind of really start an active move-ment on campus,” Stone said.

Williams notes that food is es-sential to human survival and thus needs to be a topic that is contin-ually considered and discussed.

“What’s so great about food is that it connects community with the environment. It’s like look-ing at the ecologically sustaina-ble, but also it’s so a part of peo-ple’s everyday lives, so you can effect change by just doing small things every day,” Williams said.

Food for thought: Group stresses sustainabilityby DYLAN TULLStaff Reporter

Real Food Challenge leaders, Rachel Williams ‘12 and sophomores Genny Jones and Julia Stone, hope to encourage people to change the way they think about food. Photo by Felt

Fadiman talks about creative journey IFC represented in FACE panel on men in feminism

Fadiman worked on the book, which was originally supposed to be published as an article for “The New Yorker,” for eight years.

“I am still in awe of the me-ticulous research that went into the book,” said Ly, when asked after the lecture about her per-spective on Fadiman’s work.

The lecture was the last part in the summer reading program required reading for all first-years.

“Whitman tries to have [the summer reading] cover a bunch of departments, so it’s very inter-disciplinary,” said sophomore Zoë Erb, the student academic advi-sor who introduced Fadiman’s lec-ture. “Also, it’s a really good intro-duction for [first-years] to know how they’re going to be expect-ed to think about stuff in college.”

While Fadiman’s speech wrapped up the first-year summer read process, Erb stressed the con-tinuing significance of its themes.

“I think that [the lecture’s] goal is to wrap things up for the whole summer read program and the freshman introduction to Whit-man,” said Erb. “But it’s a book, and it raises a lot of issues. At what point can something like that actu-ally be wrapped up? It’s an ongo-ing process to keep people think-ing about these sorts of things.”

First-year Emma Woodworth felt that the discussion helped her achieve a greater understanding of what she read over the summer.

“It was interesting to hear more about how [the book] was written rather than just read-ing what was written,” she said.

Woodworth thought the lecture was a valuable experi-ence for first-years to have but said it was difficult to come back in late October to a book that was discussed in August.

“I wish [the lecture had been] closer to when we actu-ally read the book,” she said.

Although the lecture took

place two months after the ini-tial first-year discussion, students were not the only ones anticipat-ing Fadiman’s visit. Three fac-ulty members from different de-partments on campus were cho-sen to present a panel discus-sion to all first-years at the be-ginning of the school year.

Before Fadiman’s lecture, two of the panel members expressed their desire to hear the author’s take on many aspects of her book.

“I’ll be anxious to see what she has taken from the differ-ent perspectives on her book and how that has perhaps changed her thinking,” said Assistant Pro-fessor of Anthropology Suzanne Morrissey, who served on the faculty panel. “Would Fadiman write the book differently now?”

Fellow panel member, As-sistant Professor of Biolo-gy Leena Knight shared the wish to hear how Fadiman’s view of her work has changed.

“My personal hope is that she’ll speak a little bit beyond the book,” said Knight. “The book and the narrative that she brings forth are quite compelling, but as one of the readers, I had this sense of wanting to know what becomes of it all. And how does it end? Is there any form of resolution?”

The cross-disciplinary per-spective engaged students and faculty members from all around the campus and al-lowed all to appreciate Fadiman’s work and presence on campus.

“She’s a great reporter and journalist and editor,” said Erb. “It’s great that she could come.”

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from FACE, page 1

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When prospective stu-dents apply to Whit-man, they are required

to write a short essay addressing the question of diversity. Yet de-spite Whitman’s focus on diver-sity, some students remain con-cerned that a $8 million decrease in available financial aid mon-ey and a shift from need-blind to need-sensitive admissions will ultimately curtail oppor-tunities for students with low-er socioeconomic backgrounds to join the Whitman communi-ty. Because of these concerns, ASWC chose “diversity” as the theme of this year’s first town hall meeting on Monday, Oct. 24, in the basement of Reid.

The meeting provided a fo-rum for students to discuss their perceptions of diversity on cam-pus. Many students voiced their concerns about taking financial need into account when making admission decisions; they fear that a need-sensitive admission process would further homog-enize the community. Because the discount rate—the number of cents given to students with fi-nancial need per tuition dollar, decreased from 41 cents last year to only 30 cents—Whitman will be less likely to admit students who have more financial need.

Associated Students of Whitman College President Matt Dittrich began the meeting by inviting students to discuss what they wrote about in their application essays on diversity.

Junior Laetitiah Maga-ra, who was born and raised in Kenya, said that she hadn’t felt conscious of her race be-fore she came to Whitman.

“I’ve come to understand that I’m a student of color,” she said.

Senior John-Henry Heck-endorn talked about the appar-ent pressure to appear diverse.

“In some ways, we’ve been taught to market ourselves as di-verse,” he said. “Is that the val-ue of diversity? Is [the goal] learning about it so we can pro-ject ourselves as diverse?”

Dittrich said that stu-dents need to continue to think about how they con-tribute to Whitman’s di-versity while they’re here.

“[The question we need to ask is:] How do we enrich the diversity once we’re al-ready on campus?” he said.

Dittrich emphasized how the differences in stu-dents’ backgrounds consti-tutes one dimension of diversi-ty at Whitman, but that the di-versity of student activities on campus also contributes to the richness our community.

However, senior Dar-ia Reaven thought that the col-lege could even work on im-proving diversity of thought.

“I think that there’s a ten-dency to try to overstate diver-sity of opinion and diversity of perspective,” she said. “I think that we have a very homogenous culture in terms of opinion.”

Reaven read a letter by sen-ior Simi Singh, who was una-ble to attend the meeting. In her letter, Singh described her con-cerns about these budget cuts.

“Over the past few months, I’ve been made more aware of the discrepancies between the perceived importance of ‘di-versity’ as it concerns the qual-ity of our education here at Whitman and the resourc-es that Whitman provides to support those minority stu-dents,” Singh said in her letter.

Singh questioned whether ASWC’s composition of predom-inantly white men affects the way they see these budget cuts.

“When the administration, the faculty and ASWC are pre-dominantly upper-middle class, white males (or are following in

the footsteps of this demograph-ic) how do members of ASWC (I’m asking the individuals with-in ASWC, not the formal ASWC stance on this matter) understand the potential for exclusivity and the potential to under-represent those students who are histori-cally and socially in the minor-ity—women, students who are not from the US, students from working-class backgrounds, students of color, students who are the first to attend college in their families?” she said.

Dittrich said that already this year, the number of “students of color” was down by 0.4 percent.

During the meeting, Dittrich mentioned that one po-tentially mitigating factor to the apparent trend of diminishing diversity is the Undocument-ed Students Resolution, which,

if passed, would allow undoc-umented students to receive aid from the college. The Board of Trustees will vote on the res-olution on Nov. 17 and 18. If it passes, Whitman will be the first liberal arts college and the sec-ond institution in the U.S. to en-act a resolution such as this.

In an email, Dittrich discussed the histo-ry of the resolution.

“The undocumented stu-dents resolution is the prod-uct of about four years of dia-logue between Trustees, stu-dents, administrators and fac-ulty. This resolution has nev-er been voted on before. How-ever, ASWC approved a student resolution in support of undocu-mented students and the Dream Act last fall; we have used it to advocate for the current undoc-

umented students resolution be-fore the Board in the past.”

Dittrich explained lat-er in an email that he and sen-ior Ariel Ruiz will advocate on behalf of the resolution.

“I have been given the high honor of meeting with the full Board that day to give an ad-dress on the state of diversity at Whitman and argue in favor of the resolution. As we begin to set tuition/financial aid targets for the next fiscal year (levers that drastically implicate ‘diversi-ty’ in our community), advocat-ing for this resolution couldn’t be more imperative,” he said.

Dittrich concluded the meeting by stressing the seri-ousness of the dialogue sur-rounding diversity and by en-couraging students to talk to him about their concerns.

ASWC President Matt Dittrich ‘12, talked to representatives from campus clubs on Monday, Oct. 25. Whitman’s shift from need-blind to need-sensitive admissions and its impact on socioeconomic diversity were discussed at the event. Photo by Bernstein

Town Hall meeting focuses on diversity concerns

Event helps raise funds

Whitman College receives high national rankings

The majority of this year’s pro-ceeds will go to Blue Moun-tain Heart to Heart’s La-tino outreach program.

“Blue Mountain Heart to Heart currently has four pro-motores de salud, promoters of health, who directly interact with the Hispanic community in the local area, handing out brochures, offering free counseling and of-fering free HIV testing,” Hancock said. “The hope is that we can provide more money for outreach programs for these promotores.”

Additionally, 10 per-cent of the total proceeds from the Mr. Whitman fundrais-er will go to the National Kap-pa Foundation, which provides funds for emergency assistance and scholarships and leader-ship opportunities for women.

“Kappa is part of a larg-er organization, and some-times that can be hard to recog-nize. We want 100 percent of the proceeds to go to Blue Moun-tain Heart to Heart, but we are part of a larger organization and we have to remember that [giv-ing back to the Kappa organiza-tion] is a good thing,” Fritz said.

Because the fundraiser will be beneficial for Blue Mountain Heart to Heart and the Kappa Foundation, the participants are comfortable even knowing that they will participate in a swim-suit competition during the event.

“Making fun of yourself—you can do it in a respectful way and in respect of other gen-der roles,” Henry-Darwish said. “I understand what people find funny, and I’m going to do, on stage, what I find appropriate.”

For a high school student searching for the perfect college, school rankings in

the media quickly become fa-miliar. Publications such as U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review release annu-al evaluations comparing liber-al arts colleges, private colleg-es and all colleges and universi-ties to the others in their fields on a number of diverse criteria.

The rankings are designed to help prospective students identify schools that fit their cri-teria. This year, Whitman was ranked 42 out of 252 liberal arts schools by U.S. News and World Report. Additionally, Whitman was named one of the Best 376 Colleges by The Princeton Re-view; Whitman was also de-clared to have the nation’s sec-

ond best health facilities, 14th best class discussions, 18th highest race and class interac-tion and 19th best professors.

Among other rankings, Whitman also received a five-star rating from Campus Pride, a nonprofit supporting LG-BT-friendly colleges, and was selected as one of ten “hid-den gems” by Unigo.com.

As quoted on the Whit-man College website, Pres-ident George Bridges ex-pressed pride in the recognition brought on by good rankings.

“The rankings reflect Whit-man’s many academic and co-curricular strengths and, spe-cifically, the unique and effec-tive ways in which our facul-ty and staff deliver an excep-tional education in the liberal arts and sciences,” Bridges said.

Dean of Admissions Tony Cabasco is also proud of the

rankings, but cautions readers not to take them too seriously.

“Some of the rankings, if you were to measure them, are not all scientific stud-ies. They’re based on a dif-ferent set of criteria; each or-ganization will rank based on what they feel will make a dif-ference,” Cabasco said. “The good news is that Whitman has done relatively well in sever-al different kinds of rankings; in a number of criteria we’re consistently regarded well.”

Director of Communi-cations Ruth Wardwell takes the rankings with a grain of salt for another reason.

“My first thought is always, ‘I hope it’s accurate,’” Wardwell said. “I know there have been schools where figures have been transposed by human error. You always have to hope that the data reported by the rankings is ac-curate and that it portrays an ac-curate reflection of Whitman.”

Wardwell, a part of whose job is to write up the rank-ings for the Whitman web-site when they are released, de-scribed the benefits that a good rating can have for a college.

“Greater awareness of Whitman widens the audience,” she said. “The more people that know about Whitman and what it is, the greater our chanc-es of finding new Whitties.”

Cabasco says that be-ing ranked well validates Whitman’s internal proce-dures. He further believes that, while college guides and magazines will not, by them-selves, motivate a student to at-tend a school, they can often be a push for a prospective stu-dent who is already interested.

“[Prospective students]

might have heard of Whitman already and then saw that we scored well in Princeton Review rankings. It’s not a primary driv-er,” Cabasco said. “It’s some-thing that students will notice, but it’s a much more complicat-ed decision than that to deter-mine what’s a good fit for you.”

While rankings can of-ten be a helpful tool and a mo-tivating source of praise, they have their darker sides as well. A story, reported this year on in-sidehighered.com, highlight-ed the problems with a sys-tem in which college presi-dents were asked to rank insti-tutions in the U.S. News survey.

“Presidents may be tempt-ed to rely on out-of-date repu-tations, may speed through the rankings with little thought or may even give low rankings to colleges that are competitors.”

Cabasco, however, says that Whitman has never considered such policies, and asserts that the college would not need to.

“Our primary mission is to deliver the best liberal arts edu-cation that we can—to hire the best faculty, to provide the best facilities, to have the best pro-grams,” he said. “I think if we fo-cus on those things, these things will take care of themselves. [Rankings] are external recogni-tion of what we value internally.”

Cabasco went on to add that he thinks playing politics with rankings is a futile effort.

“My sense is that some of those efforts [to move up in rankings] may not change the substance of the institution.”

For the full list of honors received by Whitman in mag-azine and online rankings this year, go to www.whitman.edu/content/news/rankingsfall2011.

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O n Saturday, Oct. 22, Whit-man’s three a cappella groups united to fill Cor-

diner with the wonders of the hu-man voice. The all-female Sirens of Swank joined the co-ed group Schwa, the all-male Testostertones and senior slam poet Dujie Ta-hat in a charity concert, organized by the Student Health Advisory Council to support local free urgent care clinic S.O.S. Health Services.

The three vocal groups per-formed a diverse spectrum of adapted material, ranging from the Sirens’ renditions of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and Nelly’s “Just a Dream,” to Schwa’s cover of Mika’s “Grace Kelly” and stunning Bon Iver med-ley. The T-Tones ran the musi-cal gamut, from a comic medley of ‘90s boy band songs to a haunt-ing lullaby in classic choral style.

Visiting parent Joan-na Adler shared her ap-preciation after the show.

“It’s a great cause to bring all these people together,” said Adler. “There’s great energy in here, real-ly good acoustics. My stepdaughter went to [University of Oregon] and she was in an a cappella group, and

they’re pretty competitive. It was kind of nice to listen to different styles, you know, all-girl groups sound a lot different than all-guy groups, but they brought a lot of energy to it, so it was really fun.”

First-year Carrie Walker was glowing after her first major per-formance with Sirens of Swank.

“We sang for the parents, but this was my first main one,” said Walker. “It was really fun. The au-dience was so huge! I’ve never sung in front of that huge of an audience.”

Walker explained what had drawn her to Sirens of Swank out of Whitman’s diverse vocal groups.

“I really like the com-munity of Sirens,” she said. “They’re all super sweet girls and we’re just a big family.”

Meanwhile, senior T-Tone Jas-per Bash provided some insight into the Testostertones’ new dynamic.

“We have five new mem-bers—they’re awesome. We’re re-ally excited. This is our first big concert we’ve gotten to do with them,” said Bash. “I think we have a really exceptionally cho-rally gifted group this year, a lot of people who have a real-ly strong background in choir stuff, so I’m hoping to see more

songs like ‘Lullaby’ come out.”Bash and junior T-Tone

Nik Hagen revealed some of the group’s plans for the future.

“We might have some sort of recording this year—one of the T-Tone alums might come back at the end of this year and try to record a couple songs for us,” said Hagen.

“We’re hoping to start Lull-agrams up again, where we do private concerts around cam-pus,” said Bash. “And then usu-ally we have an end-of-the-se-mester, big T-Tones-only con-cert in Hunter, which we’re look-ing to set a date for pretty soon.”

W hether it’s a date with Hulu, a lazy Sun-day reality TV mara-

thon or a stolen moment of pro-crastination in the Reid TV lounge, this week Whitties con-fessed their television habits and obsessions to The Pioneer.

The form and time spent watching TV varied wide-ly. In an online survey, 46 per-cent of Whitties reported watch-ing one to two hours of televi-sion per week, while 15 percent watched three to four hours, nine percent watched five to six hours and five percent watched seven or more hours. 25 percent of stu-dents said they do not watch TV at all. Some reported watching TV online, while others watched at home, at the gym or in Reid. The five most popular shows were “Doctor Who,” “Modern Fam-ily,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Glee” and “Arrested Development.”

Junior Alfredo Villaseñor shared his thoughts on the subject.

“I don’t have a prob-lem with [TV]; I just find other things that are worth my time,” said Villaseñor. “I always have work just because of all my sci-

ence classes. And I do kara-te too, so that’s kind of my ex-tracurricular activity. I kind of just switch off between school, karate and friends and I think that’s enough of a day already.”

Other students accorded TV a much more central role in their schedules. Junior Rosie Loring shared her weekly watching habits.

“Five hours? I don’t know. It depends on how much work I have,” said Loring. “Like, I had midterms, so I haven’t watched any TV. But I watch TV at the gym a lot, and I work at the art building, so when I work there I watch TV.”

Setting also affect-ed the amount of TV-watch-ing among Whitman students. While many students find that TV is a form of leisure and en-tertainment, for some, it is also a form of socialization.

“I generally find watch-ing too much TV to be a waste of time,” said first-year Marijke Wijnen. “But as a social activity, I like watching TV shows occasion-ally. I never watch TV by myself.”

Fellow first-year Ju-lia Thompson disagreed.

“I usually watch alone. TV’s kind of my last-resort thing,” said Thompson. “Like, if I have nothing to do, I’ll watch TV.”

Contemporary improv drum-mer Tatsuya Nakatani has traveled the world per-

forming his unique style of per-cussion. On Monday, Oct. 17, he visited Whitman’s Chism Audi-torium to play for a small crowd.

Over the years, Nakatani has created a musical technique all his own. Using his own design of specially crafted violin bows to play gongs and cymbals to play drums, his music is like noth-ing you have heard before. Add-ing to the unique quality of his work, Nakatani plays his music depending on what he feels in the moment, allowing for each con-cert to be a distinct experience.

“The way he tuned into dif-ferent frequencies and really milked out those gongs was amaz-ing,” said Assistant Professor of Music Doug Scarborough after the concert. “It was as much a vis-ual treat as it was an audio treat.”

First-year percussionist Aus-tin Sloane was equally impressed.

“That was amazing,” said Sloane. “What really interest-ed me was the control of the mu-sic, how actions as in dropping an instrument or dropping the cym-bal were combined with what he was playing in the moment. Eve-rything was very purposeful.”

Nakatani’s instruments in-clude one small and three large gongs, two drums, an assortment of cymbals and Tibetan “singing bowls.” He began developing his sound after he realized that he was stuck in the same pattern of drum playing. He tried mixing things up and realized that he liked cre-ating new ways of drumming.

“Everybody has their sound,” Nakatani explained. “If you go to hear a trumpeter you expect to hear that certain brass sound. This, this is my sound.”

Nakatani acknowledg-es that his form of music isn’t for everyone, especial-ly those with sensitive ears.

“Not everyone is as tuned into those higher frequencies,” said Nakatani. “Little kids feel my music in their teeth sometimes; they tend to be more sensitive.”

A n important part of Whit-man’s art major pro-gram is the thesis, or fi-

nal project, that the senior art ma-jors produce near the end of the school year. To gather inspiration for their respective projects, the senior art majors make an annu-al pilgrimage to New York City.

From Nov. 16-20, the stu-dents will visit many famous museums, such as the Muse-um of Modern Art, the Metro-politan Museum of Art, the New Museum and the Guggenheim, as well as independent art gal-leries. The current political at-mosphere in New York, influ-enced by the Occupy Wall Street movement, will provide an ad-

ditional source of stimulation.“The questions around class

inequalities have been of great concern in the arts for ages,” said Assistant Professor of Art Justin Lincoln in an email.

The students may also meet with an artist in a stu-dio, getting a chance to view the creative process firsthand.

“Art’s an experiential thing,” said senior Sam Alden. “It’s not the same reading about a piece, especially in contemporary art.”

Overall, the trip is an op-portunity for students to gain new ideas for their work, especially their theses.

“The trip seems to open many students’ eyes to new possibilities of how to make their work and what concep-tual or formal issues real-

ly compel them,” said Lincoln.“I’m just trying to go in

with as open a mind as I can and hopefully be inspired by something in particular,” said senior Julia Schneider.

Though both Whitman and Walla Walla foster a vi-brant artistic community, trave-ling to the East Coast gives students a greater connec-tion to the outside art world.

“This will give me anoth-er environment to take photos in

and experiment with the dras-tic architecture and diverse com-munity of people,” said sen-ior Hayley Mauck in an email.

The experience of the trip will be enhanced by the art de-partment’s Teagle Grant, which aims to create a dialogue about the new ideas gleaned from the students’ experience. Af-ter the trip, the art majors will produce a collaborative pro-ject, which they plan to dis-play on campus in the spring.

Every week, The Pioneer search-es out Whitties who bring an extra

splash of fashion consciousness and sartorial daring to campus. This week’s Style Spotlight: first-

year Lauren Platman.

Style Sound Bites

“I actually just got my boots from Forever 21. Nothing im-portant attached to them; I just

thought they looked cool. My car-digan I got from my grandpar-ents for Hanukkah, and I actual-ly wanted my grandma to knit me a sweater, but she decided to buy it instead. It’s from Urban Out-fitters. And then, my earrings I got at this local store in Portland, and they’re made by a local art-ist. I just thought they were re-ally interesting and different.”

“My roommate and I talk about it a lot, whenever we’re trying to put something together. We ask each other if it looks okay. I just kind of grab random things and just try it on. I really like boots and socks where you show your socks, and then I usually pair that with tights, and I love dresses. And then bag-gy cardigans are my favorite.”

“Sometimes I like kind of the hip-ster-alt look, but I wouldn’t say I’m a hipster or alt at all; I just real-ly like that kind of style, ‘cause it’s kind of grungy, don’t-try-hard—yet obviously, you kind of do.”

“I’ve never had like a fashion icon, but I really enjoy looking at fash-ion magazines and seeing what kind of stuff is new or just interest-ing. I’ve gotten really into going to vintage stores and finding differ-ent stuff from there and trying new decades. I really like the ‘90s.”

PIO PICKSEach Thursday, The Pioneer

highlights several events hap-pening on campus or in Walla

Walla during the weekend. Here are this week’s picks:

SankusemThe Music Department, the Intercultural Center and the Provost Dean of the Fac-ulty present Sankusem: An Evening of African-Classical Fusion! This festival brings a variety of acclaimed interna-tional artists and blends cul-tural and musical influences.Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. Chism Recital Hall.

Harvest FestThe Interest House Commu-nity presents a whirlwind of autumn activities, including pumpkin painting and carv-ing, face painting, Halloween decoration making, Día de los Muertos activities and deli-cious festive food!Thursday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Fine Arts House, Global House, Co-Op and MECCA.

Harry and the Potters ConcertKWCW, The Witching Hour and WEB present wizard rock group Harry and the Potters, bringing a range of magical music for your Muggle ears.Saturday, Oct. 29, 9 p.m. - 11 p.m. Coffeehouse.

Whitman a cappella groups join forces for charity

Testostertone Mcebo Maziya ’15 (above) lifts the roof in Cordiner Hall with a soaring solo. The Testostertones (above right) per-formed a medley of well-known pop songs from ‘90s boy bands, including N’Sync and Backstreet Boys. Photo by Bergman

STYLESPOTLIGHT

Lauren Platman ‘15 (above) poses for The Pio in her signature combination of boots, socks and tights. Photo by Beck

‘The Witching Hour’

Seniors Mehera Nori and Sara Rasmus-sen and sophomore Claire Johnson bewitch listeners with the sounds of

wizard rock, an all-encompassing musi-cal genre that celebrates the history of Harry Potter. Weekly podcasts can be downloaded at thewitchinghourkwcw.

blogspot.com or through iTunes.

Mondays, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. on the dial at 90.5 FM Walla Walla and

streaming live at www.kwcw.net. For requests, call (509) 527-5283.

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KWCW SHOWOF THE WEEK

Nakatani drums Chism Hall into delighted fervorby MALLORY MARTINStaff Reporter

by ALEX HAGENStaff Reporter

Art majors to seek inspiration in Empire State

Whitties sound off on role of TV in daily lifeby CLARA BARTLETTStaff Reporter

DJ Claire Johnson ‘14, Paul DeGeorge (Harry and the Potters), DJ Sara Rasmussen ‘12, Joe DeGeorge (Harry and the Potters) and DJ Mehera Nori ‘12. Contributed by KWCW

by CAITLIN HARDEEA&E Editor

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Before NWC championships: Breakdown of standings

SPORTSGolfMen’sNWC Men’s Fall ClassicOct. 22-23Women’sNWC Woman’s Fall ClassicOct. 22-23

SoccerMen’svs. Pacific UniversityOct. 22vs. George Fox UniversityOct. 23Women’svs. Pacific UniversityOct. 22vs. George Fox UniversityOct. 23

Volleyballvs. Willamette UniversityOct. 21vs. Linfield CollegeOct. 22

Volleyballvs. Pacific Lutheran UniversityOct. 28vs. University of Puget SoundOct. 29vs. Whitworth University Nov. 2, 6 p.m.

SoccerMen’svs. Willamette UniversityOct. 29, 2:30 p.m.vs. Linfield CollegeOct. 30, 2:30 p.m.Women’svs. Lewis & Clark UniversityOct. 29, 12 p.m.vs. Linfield CollegeOct. 30, 12 p.m.

Cross CountryMen’s and Woman’s NWC ChampionshipsOct. 29

Win 3-1

Win 1-0

Loss 1-3

Tie 1-1

Win 3-1

Loss 2-3

SCOREBOARD

UPCOMING

Men’s golf closes season with Fall Classic tourney, seeks spring season conference win

The final golf tournament of the fall wrapped up on Oct. 22 and 23 with the NWC

Men’s Fall Classic in Portland, Ore. First-year Scott Martin led the team scoring 1 under par 71, helping Whitman place third in the overall tournament. In other tour-neys the team placed second, fifth, and sixth this year. Now with the last tournament of the season fin-ished, the team looks towards the spring season with a slew of fond memories from the fall season.

One of the highlights for Head Coach Peter McClure was watching sophomore An-drew Welch and the team put up consistently high scores.

“When Andrew Welch won the first tournament that we had, at Lewis and Clark State Col-

lege, he shot 73. The thing that really impresses me about this year is our scores . . . those were phenomenal,” McClure said.

The team has developed over the course of the season with the addition of three new players.

“We got three [first-years]: Scott Martin, Cheney Doane and Nathan Fischer. It takes time to become accustomed to the play-ers and how personalities will mesh together, and it has just been as good as I could have hoped for. Everyone is getting along real-ly well and supporting each other, helping each other at practice, and we are having a lot of fun while doing it. Everyone is aware of what we are trying to accomplish, which is winning the [NWC Men’s Fall Classic],” said McClure.

Captain John Abercrombie was delighted by the newcom-ers on the team and is convinced

that they will have a significant impact upon the team as a whole.

“The [first-years] have made a big impact on the feel of the team; they are really light-hearted and have a lot of fun. They just go out there and work hard, but they are always jok-ing and goofing around. We are always together and having a lot of fun,” said Abercrombie. “Andrew Welch has really con-nected with the freshmen and stepped into a leadership role.”

With such a young team, there is room for the group to grow together through-out the coming years.

“Because we are so young, we are making a lot of pro-gress this year, so I am real-ly hopeful for the future. The conference is getting a lot bet-ter, and I really think we have a good chance of stepping up our

game and just making up some rounds and doing better than we ever have,” said Abercrombie.

With the spring season starting up around the mid-dle of March, there will be more additions to the team.

“We do get two different new guys because two are on the bas-ketball team; I think we will take the spring a little bit more serious-ly and really just try to improve,” said first-year Cheney Doane.

While the spring season is a few months away, Doane has high hopes for the future.

“Well the spring is the main season; the fall is the equivalent to the preseason. So definitely looking forward to getting back out there and competing, and as a team we have so much potential,” said Doane. “The goal is to win the conference, and as a team I be-lieve we have the talent to do it.”

by KYLE HOWEStaff Reporter

The men’s golf team at practice in the wheatfields of Walla Walla. The men placed third overall in the Northwest Conference at the final fall tournament. Photos by Beck

A quick reference to see where fall sports stand going into NW

Conference Championships.by SYLVIE LUITENStaff Reporter

The volleyball team holds a record of 2-10 in the Northwest Conference (NWC) and 3-15 overall with wins against George Fox, Walla Walla Community College and Willamette University. The team is ranked ninth in the Conference.

The women’s cross country team is ranked third in the West Region and looks forward to the West Regionals competition on Nov. 19 as a gateway to Nationals, for which they need to win as a team or qualify individually. The men’s team is currently ranked ninth in the West Region. Both teams have their NW Conference Championship meet on Oct. 29 at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.

The women’s soccer team is ranked sixth with a record of 4-7-2 in the NWC. The men’s team is ranked fourth in the Conference with a record of 7-4-0 in the NWC. The teams each have two home games left before the NWC Championships.

Whitman sports weekly factoid

Women’s soccer player Senior Amy Hasson has made the most shots on goal (28) of any player in the Northwest Conference this season and is tied for the highest number of goals with 13. Junior Jaclyn Rudd leads the Confer-ence in assists with six this season.

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6FEATURE

KWCW on 90.5 FM is the home to Whitman College’s local radio network—a station that is popular on campus and reaches out to the Walla Walla community and listeners across the country. KWCW programming has gained the attention of audiences as varied as wizard rock band Harry and the Potters and inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary. In recent years, KWCW has been cited as one of the top campus radio stations by The Princeton Review. This week, Feature highlights KWCW programs that bridge the gap between campus and the broader community and bring diverse perspectives to Whitman radio.

Elvis Costello, St. Vincent, Lucinda Williams. David Bowie, R.E.M., The Cure.

These artists represent a variety of styles, and their differences appeal to a range of listeners. That is exactly what the DJs of KWCW community shows “I Hung Around Your Soundtrack” and “The Revolution Radio Show” aim to do: attract diverse audiences.

“I Hung Around Your Soundtrack,” a show named after a mix CD named after a Joy Division lyric, was started

by Walla Walla resident Keisha Winn in 2007. She was joined by her co-host and husband Ryan Winn in 2010, and the two play an assortment of classic rock as well as a plethora of new bands. The two especially enjoy devoting airtime to bands they have befriended on Facebook—bands that would otherwise struggle to be heard.

“We play a lot of new stuff, stuff that’s even below the radar of independent labels,” said Ryan Winn.

Another avant-garde aspect of “Soundtrack” is its multi-media incorporation. Besides streaming at 90.5 FM and KWCW.net on Friday nights at 8, the show is also visually broadcast through a website called Ustream. This free live video-streaming website allows the DJs to interact with listeners through chat features while providing a sample of what goes on during broadcast. In this way, the show aims to get more exposure and attract more listeners.

As evidenced by their exploration of ways to increase listenership, the Winns invest more time in the show now than when Keisha started it as a side project years ago. Before hitting the studio, Keisha Winn mixes her shows so that they are ready to be played with a steady flow that will hold fans’ attention. Like the mix CDs that inspired the show’s name, the organized playlists are intended to share a little of the couple’s musical tastes with the greater community.

“It’s sort of my sanctuary,” said Keisha Winn. “I started it so

I could share all the music I love with as many people as I could. I see us doing this until we’re old.”

Though there is no way of telling what the future has in store, for now the Winns are enjoying the opportunity that Whitman gives them to express their taste with students as well as community members.

“It’s encouraging to see all the young people, all the potential. We’re just trying to bring some of what we know about music to them,” said Keisha Winn.

As an alternative to the Winns’ eclectic offerings, Tri-City resident Stephanie Sandlin provides three hours of “new, quality and influential” rock during “The Revolution Radio Show” on Monday mornings at 7. Much like “Soundtrack,” Sandlin’s show puts an equal emphasis on the classics as well as new music. On her Adult Album Alternative show, Elvis Costello is often followed by St. Vincent or Jack Johnson. Small record companies also send Sandlin their lastest releases, which she tries to fit into her show.

“So many stations want to stay safe and don’t play newer stuff. So how do new artists get out there?” Sandlin said.

Sandlin is a seasoned veteran of the broadcast domain. Sixteen years ago, she began her work with radio and television. Now, though she lives in the Tri-Cities, Sandlin travels approximately 50 miles to Walla Walla each week because KWCW allows more freeform programming than stations in her area. Sandlin appreciates this aspect of KWCW, but she hopes that soon her show will be picked up by a commercial station that reaches further than the Walla Walla Valley. To make “The Revolution” more streamlined for listeners and potential syndicators, Sandlin creates her shows the weekend before her studio time, much like Keisha Winn.

However, the shows are still a personal experience, through which Sandlin interacts with her music live.

“Most commercial FM stations are programmed for 15 minute listeners, not for those of us who want a musical experience,” she said.

With her professional approach to sharing good music, Sandlin hopes to provide that experience.

Both community shows thus offer listeners the opportunity to appreciate their music and their creativity, a quality the DJs agree is a positive effect of the college’s management of the station. The hosts may have bigger plans for the future, but for now they enjoy the resource that KWCW offers, and the environment of creativity that surrounds them.

KWCW, Whitman’s own ra-dio station, is a top listen-ing choice of many Whit-

man students looking for eclec-tic, popular and nerdy music and a way to support their friends who DJ. It comes as a surprise to many however, to learn that KWCW not only supports community mem-ber stations, but that its scope reaches listeners as far as Alas-ka, New York City and England.

According to communi-ty member DJ Laura Hall, her show “Acousticity” has fol-lowers in other small towns in Washington, as well as a few in Ohio and one in England.

When asked about the abil-ity to entertain Whitman stu-dents and worldwide listen-ers alike, Hall commented, “I try to keep the music interesting for all ages and include young-er artists who would appeal to the college crowd as well.”

The extended listenership of KWCW is echoed across the board. Family and friends of stu-dent DJs listen from across the country, and many shows, stu-dent and otherwise, are contacted by more obscure artists who want to promote their music. All of the shows are also available to listen to on the KWCW website (KWCW.net), and many online listen-ers tune in from outside the area.

“The Witching Hour,” play-ing on KWCW Mondays from five to seven, puts a weekly pod-cast on iTunes and had 1300 downloads this past August.

“It started out as wanting our friends in other states to be able to listen to the show,” said Sara Rasmussen of “The Witch-ing Hour.” “Now we have peo-ple who follow it online.” The la-

dies of “The Witching Hour” have had artists contact them about the show, a fact that Rasmussen attri-butes to the nature of wizard rock.

“Our online fans are love-ly, and they are devoted. We’ve had [artists] contact us, some more popular, [others] that we don’t play that much,” said Witch-ing Hour co-host Mehera Nori.

The nature of wizard rock is fan-based and not necessar-ily on a true professional level. It is for the most part very low-key, so artists who contact them aren’t really celebrities as much as they are very excited fans who want to share their passion.

In addition, “The Witching Hour” is responsible for bring-ing Harry and the Potters to cam-pus on Saturday, Oct. 29. The hosts said that the process was easy and was not intimidating, even when working with the first and foremost wizard rock band.

“We interviewed them at one of their concerts this sum-mer and then asked them if they would be interested in coming to Whitman,” said Rasmussen. After emailing back and forth through-out the summer, “The Witching Hour,” in conjunction with Caris-sa Wagner (WEB Music Direc-tor) and Daria Reaven (KWCW General Manager), succeed-ed in arranging for Harry and the Potters to play on campus.

Reaching out beyond the Whitman bubble can be intim-idating, but for KWCW it may help to promote and broad-en the scope of the station.

“It would be awesome if people could find a way to do that,” said Claire Johnson, an-other Witching Hour host. “Any-thing that would be creative would be cool. Podcasting is one thing. It’s possible, definitely.”

SCHEDULEKWCW provides listeners

with a wide variety of shows to choose from. Below is

the schedule of student and community shows, straight from kwcw.net/schedule.

MondayThe Revolution Radio Show 7amMeccalicious 10am Phishosophy 12pmThe Eclectic Jukebox 2pmWitching Hour 5pmMarvin K. Mooney 7pmAcousticity 8pmESPN 8 10pmFreestyle Mystery Tour 11pm

TuesdayHistrionic Musicality Disorder 10amWatershed Waves 12pmFiller 2pmGourmet Music 5pmMystical Allies & Co. 7pmHot N’ Bothered 8p,Marvin K. Mooney 9pmSlovakian Textiles 10pm.All Things Considered 12am

WednesdayTom & Ami’s Internet Hour 9amAround the World 10amNon-linear Trash 12pmBoring Conversations 2pm8-Bit Smiles 5pmClick 7pmFood for Thought 9pmChappy Hour 10pmSparkle Motion 12am

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272011

7OPINION

W henever we see iP-hones and other elec-tronics, we some-

times cannot help but get a sense that the future is getting bright-er and that technology will lead the way to a better future. The advent of computers and the in-ternet has made our lives quick-er. It’s also easier to stay in touch with people back home or friends far away. Technology has made our lives more interconnected and more entertaining in some ways.

Yet, what one sees is the end product of the electronics sup-ply chain. Before any of the prod-ucts are sold to us by minimum-wage-earning store clerks—and before the products are pro-duced in factories—raw materi-als and rare earth metals are gath-ered from war-torn areas in Af-rica. Tin, gold, coltan, tungsten and other metals allow electron-ic companies to create their elec-tronics. Tungsten helps our phones vibrate, tantalum allows our elec-tronics to store electric charge without a battery. As an example of our dependence on these rare earth metals, Newsweek report-ed that 20 percent of the world’s tantalum comes from Congo.

The U.N. estimates that each year hundreds of millions of dol-lars of metals from these war-torn areas are purchased and the funds go to Congolese renegades and Hutu fighters associated with the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, as well

as many other unsavory charac-ters. Their violent crimes include genocide, mutilation and some-times even forced cannibalism.

The main issue is that inter-national policy has to enforce fair

trade and better working rights. Tech brands currently have diffi-culty deducing whether they use conflict minerals in their electron-ics. Between Apple and the initial supplier of raw materials, there can

be as many as five steps of separa-tion. The metal ore is first mined by rebel groups in Africa, then sold to multinational smelters and bought and sold among different distributors before it finally makes it way to electronics companies.

That is one of the prob-lems with our global economy, though it allows us to work to-gether more effectively: Our dis-tance from others makes us cal-lous towards how they feel.

Though it does not seem like technology will leave us anytime soon, I think that new policies will help enforce order in the Congo; one hopeful example is the Kim-berley Method, which helps pur-chasers identify which diamonds were mined without hurting human rights. A similar system is needed to identify where we get rare earth metals. Until then, since we can-not stem the flow of technology, there will always be some regret at the human cost of technology.

Smart phone wars: ‘The Phantom Menace’ behind acquiring rare minerals

I arrived in Portland over four-day on a Friday night. The air was biting yet alive with

the bustle of a city whose bed-time is long past Walla Walla’s. The streets were filled with activ-ity, and as my friend and I forged through the night in the quest for a dining facility that was open to minors at this hour, we drove past the small metropolis that is the Oc-cupy Portland site. The grounds of the park they occupied were blistered with tents, as if a mod-ern-day Hooverville had sprung up in the midst of the city—only this one was full of nylon tents, electric generators and a vi-brancy that its inhabitants exud-ed. Most importantly, they were there by choice, not necessity.

When discussing the clean-cut nature of the Whitman cam-pus, the friend whose company brought me to Portland that week-end told me, “that’s not real.” In-

deed, after returning to Whitman that Tuesday I was struck by the seemingly artificial nature of the campus. Its manicured lawns and prodigious brick buildings, the de-ciduous trees aflame with color that dot Ankeny Field and whose leaves are sprinkled in strategical-ly placed circles around their bas-es—it is a scene that is often nau-seatingly picturesque. But pictur-esque need not always mean artifi-cial. In fact, it was the community of pseudo-poverty enveloping the streets of Portland that struck me most with a sense of artificiality.

Later that weekend we en-countered the protesters again, and the clamor of their communi-ty was even more exuberant in the daylight. While sitting on the edge of Pioneer Square waiting to catch the Max, our heads were drawn up the street by the rhythm of beating drums and the dogmatic chants of the Occupy Portland brigade.

While I have no qualms about the integrity of the movement at large, Portland seems to be a city where the aim of the protest has missed its mark. On this particu-lar afternoon a crowd of hundreds descended upon the square, signs and megaphones in tow, chant-ing their mantra “Whose street? Our street!” But a quick scan of the homemade signage revealed a great lack of direction. The signs ranged from berating Wall Street

to raising support for action against climate change, bringing in organ-izations like 350.org that certain-ly have little to do with the current political state of the middle class.

Looking down upon the assembly from the top of the square, it was hard to see any-thing but a group of young mid-dle-class Americans who were protesting for the sake of protest.

I find myself lending much more respect to the reform ef-forts of my fellow classmates than to those of the students bunking down in tents, a cloudy haze of dirt, cigarette smoke and zeal for progress enveloping their bod-ies. Students who are taking ad-vantage of the opportunities af-forded to them at places like Whit-man. Students who, rather than re-verting to a state of squalor in a quest for romantic rebellion, are establishing voices through clubs and organizations and empower-ing themselves through their ed-ucation to make a difference in the world. For, far from enacting a selfless act of protest, these stu-dents who choose to resort to life in tents with a ragtag communi-ty of protesters when they have the resources afforded to middle-class Americans at their dispos-al are doing a great disservice to themselves and their community.

The environment provided to us at Whitman may be a far cry

from the realities of life present in large cities such as Portland, but what the campus offers us is a sense of integrity, a sense of in-tegrity that is lacking in the young people involved in the Occupy Portland movement and that em-

anates from a community of stu-dents using their education to af-fect the future of our country. And I find this to be an entirely more no-ble pursuit than the efforts of stu-dents lending their lives to the jun-gle of tents in the heart of Portland.

Middle-class ‘Occupy Portland’ protestors should harness power of education

T here have been rumors that a cabal of student heretics are trying to re-

place our holy and enduring mascot. And what, I ask, would they change it to? A duck, per-haps, in reminiscence of the or-giastic rituals of spring that have soiled our student body’s innocence? Or our campus’ in-vasive and ubiquitous red squir-rel? How about . . . the Walla Walla onion . . . ?

I myself have suffered the sweet temptation of the on-ion. To dissolve and collectiv-ize the Frisbee team’s monop-oly, to have something as ab-surd as a vegetable on a t-shirt, to proudly call myself a sweet—I rather like those propositions.

But what is a mascot?A mascot is a lucky charm

and a subject of comedy. It’s the representation of an in-stitution (sorry, Mr. Bridg-es) and the avatar of its history.

It’s a symbol, an ethere-al mass that we as humans can craft and imagine both ef-fortlessly and instinctive-ly. It’s the conjunction of our sensory experience and im-

agination, and it lasts only as long as we have a use for it.

Today the missionary bor-ders on being an anachronism. It’s resigned to some moderately popular T-shirts, the basement of the library, a statue between here and Safeway and some hor-rendous paintings in the Mar-cus Whitman Hotel. All that most people know about Mar-cus and Narcissa—the inspi-ration for this mascot—is that they died fairly close to here.

Furthermore, an increas-ing number of Whitman stu-dents feel uncomfortable hav-ing a mascot with religious connotations. The missionary may have been a fitting mascot from 1859 to 1907 when Whit-man was first a seminary school and then a religiously affili-ated college, but now that our student body is full of people of different faiths and world-views, a character whose job is to convert people to Christiani-ty is no doubt offensive to some.

In my case, however, it bothers me to think that Mar-cus and Narcissa would subse-quently disappear if we replaced them with something more trendy and likely more profita-ble. I enjoy the history our mas-cot contains despite its incon-gruity with Whitman today.

But it is just a symbol.When I hear the word “mas-

cot,” I think of the Spanish word “mascota,” which means “pet,” and there is some truth in that this symbol is our pet: We are its owners and ultimately we should be the ones to decide its fate.

Missionary: Still appropriate as mascot?

F our years ago, I was a sen-ior in high school about to make what at that point was

the most important decision of my life: where to attend college. As your typical over-analytical 17-year-old girl, I naturally resort-ed to pro-con lists. On Whitman’s, nestled in among things like “free laundry” and “24-hour library,” was “missionary mascot.” I found it quirky and unique (not to men-tion wonderful in its potential for sexual innuendo: “Missionar-ies, Missionaries, we’re on top!”).

But most importantly, as the history nerd that I am (give me a Ken Burns documentary over that new rom-com with that cute ac-tor any day), the missionary mas-cot inspired me to investigate the problematic past to which our col-lege will forever be linked. To tru-ly know the essence of a thing, one has to understand its histo-ry. To deny our past—especially on the grounds of being shameful or uncomfortable—is extreme-ly dangerous. Doing so breeds complacency and ignorance. It all

comes down to that age-old cli-ché about learning from the er-rors of the past so that we do not repeat them in the future.

People argue that the mis-sionary mascot fails to be a ral-lying point for students and does not foster unity, pride or school spirit. I think it fails to do these things because we’ve failed to take the time to get to know it.

They argue that it smacks of imperialism, cultural domination and the empiricism of tradition-al Western thought, and that, be-cause these are things that Whit-man encourages us to critical-ly examine, our mascot inherent-ly misrepresents us as a commu-nity. I think that this viewpoint—while valid—is restricting.

Yes, in countless ways the history of American westward expansion is tragic and atro-cious, but it is neither one-sid-ed nor black and white. Yes, mis-sionaries like Marcus and Nar-cissa Whitman worked to pro-mote their God and their ide-als, but not because they devi-ously sought to destroy and op-press a native culture. They gen-uinely hoped both to learn from and to work for the betterment of the peoples they encountered.

Today at Whitman this same drive for service to others—for making better—is in full force. How many Whitties volunteer in Walla Walla independent-ly or through opportunities like the Whitman Mentor and Adopt-A-Grandparent programs? How

many of us spend our breaks and summers on service trips? How many of us go on to programs like Teach for America, the Peace Corps and Americorps after grad-uating? How many of us want to change the world for the better? While we’ve come a long way from our clerical roots (Whit-man College was founded as Whitman Seminary), our essen-tial commitment to good and to human betterment has remained.

Whitman is a positive force, striving to instill in us an appar-ent approach to life: one founded on critical thinking, well-round-edness and the pursuit of one’s passions (whatever they may be). Simultaneously, our commitment to respecting a diversity of peo-ples, cultures, viewpoints and ide-als—while commendable and im-portant—often pushes us to adopt a sense of hyper-political cor-rectness, which at times limits more than it allows us to grow.

In a 2007 Pioneer article ti-tled “Whitman’s history: ‘Swept under the rug’?” a then-senior was quoted as saying, “I don’t think it [the missionary] reflects Whitman, we’re not about con-verting people, we’re about criti-cal thinking and helping people.”

I would offer an alter-nate interpretation: We are mis-sionaries, but in a sense differ-ent from the Protestant wag-on-train variety of the mid-19th century. “Critical think-ing” is our new religion; “help-ing people” is still our mission.

Whitman’s controversial past warrants preservation of quirky missionary mascot

Voices from the Community Do you think KWCW is a big part of the Whitman community? Poll by Axtell

FERNANDO MEDINASophomore

BEN HARRIS Sophomore

JENNA CARRSophomore

VANESA VEGADORADOSpanish House Native Speaker

“I don’t listen as much as I feel I should. I guess it’d be nice to get more posters and publicity about shows. But I think it’s a really great thing.”

“I suppose so. My minifeed tells me when all my friends’ shows are on.”

“There seem to be a lot of students involved—lots of students listen to it. I think it’s really nice that there’s a radio station made for students by students.”

“The radio station? I personally don’t have a radio, but I hear other people talking about it a lot.”

CARALOWRYManaging Editor

ELIZABETH COLEFirst-year

ALFREDO VILLASEÑORJunior

Political Cartoon by Kelly Douglas

ILLUSTRATION BY BAILEY

PHILIPCHENGFirst-year

272011

8Hallo, Hallo, Hallowhitties,

Welcome to the Halloween issue! For Hal-loween this year, I thought long and hard and eventually came to the decision that I want to be Vampira. You might be asking me, though, aren’t you already a slutty fictional character? Would it be really a stretch to be Vampira for Halloween? I will let you know that Vampira is not a slut but, actually, a whore. And whores are totally differ-ent. So look out—I intend to shock and awe.

Ich bin ein Hallowiener,

Adam “John F’in Kennedy” Brayton

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Truly Excellent Couple Ideas• Siamese twins (Even better as Siamese cats. Siamese cat twins?)• Native American and Christopher Columbus (A very exploitative relationship)• Hawaiian Punch (One dresses up as a boxer and the other dresses up as a hula dancer)• Pantomime Horse (Who’s gonna be the butt?)• Adam and Eve (Never mind fig leaves—just go naked!)• Priest and Nun (A truly Green-Dot couple)• Hot Dog & Bun (No, this is not an open-faced sandwich)• Harry and Hermione or Ron and Ginny (Someone’s gonna Avada Kedavra somebody . . . )

Costumes That Can’t Possibly Be Sluttified• Slutty pregnant elephant in the third trimester of the gestation period (Other alternatives include beached whale or dumpster)• Slutty Yahtzee (Even if there is a full house, there’s a 1/6^5 chance that nobody’s gonna want that)• Slutty Sasquatch (“Me Sasquatch. Me sexy thang.” Yeah, right)• Slutty Lamp with shade and stand (Nothing says curves like a pole with a lamp shade on its head)• Slutty Fellow of the Ring (Seriously, does anyone have a special place in their loins for Gimli?)

Group Ideas—For the Whole Section!• Gang Green (Everyone in the group wears all green)• Chudley Cannons Quidditch Team (Because nobody gives a hoot about those suckers)• Sandwich Condiments (Just smear it all over y’all’s bodies)• Office Supplies (And then, Rob Schneider found out how hard it was to be a stapler)• Brady Bunch Characters (Wholesome family fun for the whole wholesome family)• Assorted Fruits (Fruit of the Loom style)• Favorite mythical creatures (I’ll be the Pegasus to your Pan)

The official annual Backpage

list of potential costume ideas that

you should really take to heart in seriously

considering for the planning of your personal and

public masquerade on the holiday of .Halloween

Ich bin ein

Hallowiener

Is Halloween just a complete drag for you? Do you just want to punt every little five-year-old you see wearing some dumb costume he or she bought at Wal-Mart? Do you want to incinerate all sorts of

candies in a heaping fire fueled by the rage in your heart? Well, too freaking bad! I’m sure you’re the kind of person who has considered alternatives to this festival of wonderment and joyfulness and happy. And I’m gonna be the guy to shoot down all of those alternatives. Bring it.

Beggar’s Night: You think that giving to those people who need it most would be the best way to spend your evening. You think that maybe, just maybe, your work can help alleviate the symptoms of poverty that not only plague Walla Walla, but also the United States itself. Well, there are dozens, if not scores of children out there who want candy, and they want candy right now. Will you deprive them?

National Caramel Apple Day: You may be inclined to believe that putting a fruit inside your candy will make it somehow healthier. Lipstick on a pig, much?

Irish October Bank Holiday: If you have even thought once about celebrating this holiday that shouldn’t exist, you ought to be beaten mercilessly with a shillelagh. Irish banks don’t deserve holi-days until the economy gets fixed.

Samhain: Oh, you freaking hipster. “I’m going to celebrate the Gaelic holiday that was cool before Halloween existed and took it over.” Get with the times.

UNICEF day: I actually have no problems with this. As long as you are explicitly “Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF.”

ALTERNATIVES TO Halloween

Comic by Emily Johnson

Letter from The Puzzle Slut

For Frankenstein, you'd need more than one.

Joust verbally

A little quarrel

For Lady MacBeth, cover hands in blood and try to rub away that ____

Santa's suit stainer

In a minute

Big help; blessing

Brought into the world

Freddy Kruger make-up needs a large ____

Go left, say

Small glacial lake

Like a lemon

For a classic witch, put a ____ on the side of your nose

Herbaceous plant

Had on, as clothes

Oliver Twist's plea

Or, give your witch a big, hairy ____

Stripper ____

Source of sweat

Pig on a plate

To dress up as Machete you'll want to fill your face with ____ marks

Choose

A hair whorl or cow____

They cause itchy scalps

Darth Maul's face has a long ____ drawn down the forehead and nose

Cabernet or Zinfandel

Send via telegraph

Yorkshire river

Hundred-____ Wood

If you're uninspired, you can always go as a teenager with terrible ____

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